Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 16, 1894
Published in The Lake County Independent on 02/16/1894. An Eagle, a Coyote and a Fish Get Mixed Up in a Lively Scrap. Â Â Â Â A curious contest was witnessed by some Texas cowboys recently between a coyote, a catfish and an eagle. The fish was swimming downstream making his way through shallow water to deeper pools. […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, September 4, 1873
     An interesting child, remarks the Pall Mall Gazette, has lately made its appearance at Lucknow. The Pioneer reports the arrival there of “a novelty in the shape of a wolf boy.” This young gentleman, who is now undergoing a process of taming in the lunatic asylum, was, it is said, carried off by […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Friday, July 8, 1881
 London Telegraph.     From his eminently interesting work, entitled “Jungle Life in India,” Mr Ball has added good reasons for believing that the old classical story of the rearing of Romulus and Remus by a she-wolf may be founded in fact. The author cites the case of two lads in an orphanage in Sekundra, […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, September 23, 1876
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 09/23/1876. Â Â Â Â The Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club has the following remarkable ancedote’ of the intelligence of a crow: A tame crow [Corvus Americanus] in my possession has repeatly amused me by the the novel method he adopts to rid himself of parasites. For this purpose he […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, September 1, 1881
     The Anthropological Society of France had recently under discussion the question whether the dog descends from the wolf. Mr. Harbourdin said that he brought up a wolf that was now six years old and as gentle as a lamb. It was, besides remarkably intelligent, and could open the doors by turning the handle. […]
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Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 12, 1902
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on 11/12/1902. Â Â Â Â Strange as it may seem, the elephant is passionately fond of finery and delights to see himself decked out with gorgeous trappings. The native princes of India are very particular in choosing their state elephants and will give fabulous sums for an animal that exactly meets […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 24, 1896
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 07/24/1896. Â Â Â Â During the parade of a circus at Winnipeg, Man., two of the big elephants broke from their keepers and stampeded up Main street. Winnipeg has never had a more exciting time. The elephants were recaptured with much difficulty and danger.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville,Illinois on Friday, July 13, 1900
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 07/13/1900. Â Â Â Â It is a fact that pipers in Highland regiments are posted to companies, and always follow them wherever they go. On one certain occasion a company of the Gordons were marching from a place called Jellunder, to Fort Kangra, situated on one of the […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 25, 1908
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 09/25/1908. Â Â Â Â A sentinel in the menagerie at Paris has a curious experience with one of the largest elephants. The sentinel was very conscientious and always requested the spectators not to give the animals anything to eat, which seemed to displease the elephant in question to […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 31, 1899
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on 03/31/1899. Â Â Â Â No animal will face danger more readily, at man’s bidding than the elephant. As an instance, take the following incident, which recently occured in India. A small female elephant was charged by a buffalo in high grass, and her rider in the hurry of the moment, […]